First responders and other survivors of 9/11 are continuing their fight for the future of a federal health program that's saved thousands of lives.

"9/11 didn't end on 9/11," Michael Barasch, a top New York attorney representing first responders and civilians like himself who returned to ground zero within weeks of the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, told Scripps News Group. "Because so many people continue to get cancer. They've now linked 69 cancers to the World Trade Center toxins, and we're in need of more money, sadly, for the World Trade Center Health Program."

Barasch was eventually diagnosed with prostate cancer through the World Trade Center Health Program, which provides free annual health screenings and treatment to more than 130,000 people across the United States.

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